BROTHER GARDNER'S FUNERAL ORATION.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4538, 21 July 1883, Page 4

BROTHER GARDNER'S FUNERAL ORATION.

1 "It again becomes my painful dooty to announce the fack dat death has invaded our racks," said the president, as tbe last notes of the triangle died away. ••. Word ; has bin received dat Elder John Spooner, of Winchester, Varginy, am no mo. He | jined dis club about two years ago, an' his .interes' in it was unabated up to his dyin' I hour. In his death we has lost a good man, but we has at de same time gained somo valuable experience, in case we feel like accepting it. Elder Spooner believed in de motto:' Honesty amdebes*policy'; an' he died poo.- He loved his navbar as himself, an' his noybur had altogether de hes* of it. He had charity fur all. an' dat kept hia chill'en widout shoos an' | his wife tied down to a kaliker dress for Sunday. His motto was Excelsior, an 1 his' Sunday dinner was as thin an' hard as sheet iron. ,' Dooring the summer sezun, when fuel doaq' cost nuffio, folks kiu go barfut, aa' any sort of a man kin aim a dollar a day, it am well'nuf to hang ' God Bless our Home' ober de doah an' spank de chil'en wid a bootjack labelled: 'JJar.am room at detop;' but after win' ter has shet down, de man who won't trade proverbs fur' taters «'id mottoes fir bacon may make up his mind to feel hungry half the time. Elder Spooner was honest, an' darfore poo. He was conscienshus, tiu' durfor ragged. He was fullof mercy an' pity an' spmpathy, au' darfore had the reputation of bciu'weak in the seeoud story. Idoan' advise any man to be wicked, but I desire to carelessly remark dat de real good man who am obleeged to (urn hispapar collar's am shunned by society aa' laffed at by de world. Let us now purceed to bizness."—• Detroit Free tress.